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Countless casualties, visible or not
Thus, who’s surprised the Gulf eco-system continues to absorb body blows? Independent research confirms, even IF we started redemption today, pre-spill conditions means decades. Some species, like sperm whales and bluefin tuna, escaped the worst poisons, but not the less mobile:
- extensive habitats of deep sea and shoreline plant species;
- incalculable zooplankton species, sustaining the entire ecosystem;
- reduced seafood catches, pockmarked by deformation or worse;
- dying coral stands, plumed by BP’s deadly, “frothy gunk;”
- fish small and large, even 300 lb. sturgeon found with corrupted DNA, presaging “cancers, tumors, and immunological-reproductive disorders;”
- air-breathing sea turtles (whose juveniles require Gulf nurseries); and
- mammals, surface breathers with susceptible, toxin-absorbing skin and lungs, like ours.
Fact: bottlenose dolphin mortality from Texas to Florida jumped from 74 normally to surpass 600 this season, with widespread outbreaks of liver, lung, and immune diseases predicted.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/robert-becker/42788/trickle-down-gulf-wreck-onomics
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